photoheliograph

[ foh-tuh-hee-lee-uh-graf, -grahf ]

noun

, Astronomy.

1. an instrument for photographing the sun, consisting of a camera and a specially adapted telescope.

Other Words From

• pho·to·he·li·o·graph·ic [foh-t, uh, -hee-lee-, uh, -, graf, -ik], adjective
• pho·to·he·li·og·ra·phy [foh-t, uh, -hee-lee-, og, -r, uh, -fee], noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of photoheliograph¹

First recorded in 1860–65; photo- + heliograph

Example Sentences

He took it in Rivabellosa, Spain, with an instrument known as the Kew Photoheliograph.

From New York Times

It was one of the heaviest of the lot, containing the cast-iron pier on which the photoheliograph was to be mounted.

From Project Gutenberg

With the telescope, micrometer, heliostat, and spectroscope came desire for more complex instruments, resulting in the invention of the photoheliograph, invoking the aid of photography to make permanent the results of these exciting researches.

From Project Gutenberg

But astronomical photography really owes its beginning to De la Rue, who used the collodion process for the moon in 1853, and constructed the Kew photoheliograph in 1857, from which date these instruments have been multiplied, and have given us an accurate record of the sun’s surface.

From Project Gutenberg

When Galileo directed his telescope to the heavens, when Secchi and Huggins studied the chemistry of the stars by means of the spectroscope, and when Warren De la Rue set up a photoheliograph at Kew, we see that a progress in the same direction as before, in the evolution of our conception of the universe, was being made.

From Project Gutenberg